Avoid downtime and reduce the risk of lost company data
LexisNexis® Cloud Recovery is a cloud-based server replication solution that addresses your business continuity and disaster recovery requirements, with no capital investment required. Cloud Recovery can be deployed in hours, and provides near instantaneous Failover and Failback capability for your production server environment.
LexisNexis Cloud Recovery allows your organization to conduct business as usual during unexpected server failures or planned downtime through auto-failover and redirection of your users to a real-time, replicated server environment in a secure cloud.
Failover is seamless and rapid, with users and applications up and running in mere minutes, ensuring continued service for your company and your customers.
Business Challenge
Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs), including many of Canada's law firms, have the same, if not greater, exposure to risks from unplanned outages as their larger competitors, but tend not to have the budget or resources to manage their IT business continuity and disaster recovery infrastructure in the same way.
SMEs, however, must operate “non-stop” if they are to stay competitive in today’s on-demand business environment. Interruptions due to unexpected system failures, software corruption, maintenance windows, outside threats or disasters will affect sales, service and productivity, and may threaten a company’s very survival.
What SMEs need is an affordable and manageable way to ensure non-stop business operations and total data protection—a turn-key business continuity service that leverages the capability and capacity of the cloud to ensure continuous availability of applications and data in the event of a critical system failure or disaster … and is delivered without additional IT infrastructure costs and without adding or training internal IT staff.
Solution
LexisNexis Cloud Recovery is sold as a managed, cloud-hosted service that provides secure, real-time server replication with automatic failover and failback, ensuring data protection and high availability from a secure cloud-hosted platform.
This service is a comprehensive, turn-key Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solution tailored for law firms and others in the SME market, especially those that have limited or strained IT resources and budgets. LexisNexis Cloud Recovery is a subscription-based, managed service that eliminates the need to purchase, install, oversee and support hardware, operating systems, application software, BC/DR software and DR data centre facilities—helping you eliminate upfront capital expenses, excessive deployment time and demands on IT resources.
The solution provides automated 24x7 BC/DR server protection, can be installed without any disruption to your operations in typically less than 24 hours and is integrated with a top-tier Canadian data centre. Cloud Recovery easily helps SMEs meet their continuous availability needs within the limits of their staff and budget—allowing IT to meet business and compliance accountability in a challenging economic environment.
- A comprehensive, managed solution
- Immediate protection
- Virtually eliminate end-user downtime and data loss
- Failover and Failback in minutes
- Reactivate your systems on your schedule
- Flexible scheduling for upgrades and routine maintenance
- No financial risk and substantial return on investment (ROI)
- Total Protection with Global Reach
- Scales to meet your growth and timeline needs
- Access your applications and data anywhere, anytime
- No appliance, software or human resource burden
- Real-time activity and system health check reporting
- Typically deploys within 24 hours
You're Protected Within Hours — LexisNexis Cloud Recovery starts with an online Readiness Assessment (RA) process to identify your mission-critical servers and applications that require continuous availability. Once the RA has been completed, a secure, enterprise-grade VPN connection is established, allowing your essential applications and servers to be replicated to the cloud. Your business is immediately fully protected from unplanned server outages and the potentially negative economic impact.
You Assume Complete Control — LexisNexis Cloud Recovery provides you with auto-failover capabilities and easy and secure access to our Control Panel, a patented web-based interface that provides real-time visibility to your servers and network through our virtual Network Operating Centre—an automated engine that watches over your network 24/7. The virtual NOC allows you to monitor the status of your environment in real time, and in the event of a production server interruption, allows you to instantly failover to your replicated environment in the cloud.
In addition to ensuring business as usual during server downtime, Cloud Recovery affords you the opportunity to manage your resources more effectively by scheduling system changes and updates on your timetable—even during normal business hours—with the guarantee of continuous application availability.
No Capital Investment Required— LexisNexis Cloud Recovery requires no capital investment. Customers are billed on a monthly basis for each replicated server at prices far more economical than a traditional build-it-yourself solution.
Cloud Recovery protects your business by fully replicating your critical servers to a secure hosted cloud environment, in a Canadian data centre. All operating systems, supported applications and end-user data are made available in a secure and 24/7 accessible cloud-hosted environment. Your servers and data are kept current through real-time continuous replication.
In the case of a server failure, downtime or a complete customer site loss, the Cloud Recovery service automatically redirects data and users to the cloud-hosted Replica Servers, which operate in Failover Mode for the duration of the downtime event. Customers can securely access the cloud-hosted Replica Servers from any remote location via the Internet, or continue to access it locally should their site continue to be available.
After a planned or unplanned outage, failing a server back from the Cloud Recovery environment to your restored production servers, a process called Failback, is fast and transparent to your end users, who continue working without any interruption even if they are working remotely or onsite. The Failback process synchronizes the changed data, while users continue to access their applications and data files, and then seamlessly redirects user traffic back to the production environment. Business continues as usual.